sofista

Borrowed from Latin sophista.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistes)

1. sophist

• sofisma
• sofístic

• “sofista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sofista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sofista” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sofista” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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sofista m anim

1. sophist (ancient teacher of eloquence)
2. sophist (impostor)

From Latin sophista.

sofista m or f by sense (masculine plural sofisti, feminine plural sofiste)

1. sophist

• sofisma

• sofista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Fossati, fastosi, fissato, fossati, satisfò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soˈfis.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈfis.ta/,

sofista m (genitive sofistae); first declension

1. medieval spelling of sophistēs

First-declension noun.

• SOFISTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Learned borrowing from Latin sophista, an alternative form of sophistes, from Ancient Greek σοφῐστής (sophĭstḗs).

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈfis.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m pers

1. (Ancient Greece, historical, logic) sophist (one of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in Ancient Greece)
2. (logic) sophist (one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument)

• sofista in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin sophista.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)

1. sophist (all senses)

• sofisma

• “sofista”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin sophista.

• IPA^(key): /soˈfista/
• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: so‧fis‧ta

sofista m or f by sense (plural sofistas)

1. (philosophy) sophist

• “sofista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10